Recent content by PaddyRedman

Never built a house for bats, although had my hand in building a few houses over the years. Job last year was demolishing garage that housed lesser horseshoed bats in the spring to autumn and they hibernate in a local quarry over winter. So bat protection said we had to build them a home and...

As has been said, HSS for cutting threads, carbon steel for chasing threads. The amount of carbon steel taps I've snapped cutting threads is beyond the reasonable mark. Once snapped you've then got to try and get it out.... I always use a bit of drilling / cutting paste on steel, helps to ease...

I had both wood turning lather a small bench top Clarke metal lathe. Wood lathe got moved to the loft as the metal lathe took over most of the turning duties as its a lot more accurate and combined with making metal parts for jigs, remming parts down to suit and making one off parts for my...

There was a guy selling netting type sleeving for the festool hoses, in near enough identical festool green but seems to have got a bit greedy and is racking the price up to £25 per length. I'm pretty sure you could get hold of some from China for a fraction of the cost. I bought one for my...